Mixed Connective Tissue Disease Stories

Hello, all!! I fight like a girl!! I am 45 years old and have always been healthy. By that I mean that I’ve never been one to get colds or viruses when everyone else around me is sick. I’ve always had physically demanding jobs and have stayed pretty active. As I passed …

My name is Juakina and I am 32 years old. I was diagnosed with Mixed Connective Tissue Disease when I was 12 years old. I had my ups and downs battling a disease as a child is sooo different than fighting my disease as an adult. I’m originally from California …

Hello, my name is Althea. My fight like a girl story begins in 2006. I was in nursing school and realized I was unable to stand for a three hour lab class without sitting down and taking a break. I experienced pain in my joints, had a hard time concentrating, …

My name is Yvonne. I am a 39-year-old mother of three beautiful children ages 21, 17, and 14. I can’t tell you how excited and sad I felt after finding this website. At first I thought I would just read some of the stories about mixed connective tissue disease just …

A few ago months ago I was a beaming Bride-to-Be, planning day in and day out, trying to ignore the pain and swelling I was having in my hands. As the pain got worse, my fingers started changing colors, and the swelling reached a point where I couldn’t even get …

For 40 some odd years, I was a seriously healthy, strong chickadee. I did yoga, played tennis, skied. I was a soccer playing mom! When everyone else got the flu, I waded through the sea of germs tending to the sick with nary a scratch. My experience of being sick …

Well, for about half my life, I had been feeling a lot of joint pain. It mostly started with my knees at first. I thought maybe I had just injured them in some way. As time progressed I began having knee and back pain. I got older and began to …